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hybridized dance/concert performances in the late 1930s and “off-time” bebop social dancing in the 1940s and 1950s. These case studies demonstrate that both seated and dancing listening were ...
By the end of the 1920s, at least 60 communities across the nation enact laws prohibiting jazz in public dance halls. The introduction of Prohibition in 1920 brings jazz into gangster-run ...
which began to infect the most famous dance floors and inspire the leading musicians of the age. But the development of the jazz craze in Poland in the 1920s and 1930s was slow and erratic – and never ...
JB In the mid-1930s, jazz orchestras were growing ... Henryk Gold or Alfred Melodysta performed – were turning into dance parties. An exception was the ensemble of the trumpeter Ady Rosner, who, as ...
The advent of the phonograph in the 1920s and 1930s ... Jazz Love Blueprint is Dorothy’s sixth addition to a collection of prints that celebrate the history of various music genres, with previous ...